Chosen At Random

Chapter 3

A tall, heavily muscular man strides into the room, his whole aura screaming danger and evil.

"Why hello there class!" He says with sarcastic cheeriness. "How are we all today??"

We look at each other, bewildered and he laughs and continues.

"Enough of the childish silliness. Now you're the test subjects am I correct? Oh goody, a bunch of pansies! This should be fun." He says, at first his voice is cheery and happy, but it quickly turns dark and menacing, his black eyes staring us down and daring us to make a sound as the guards direct us to move through the metal doors and into what lay beyond.

A huge room with bad lighting, two levels with stairs leading up to the top level and concrete floors is in front of us, our prospects looking grim. I look around, noting the small metal cages stacked on top of each other all along three walls and the other wall covered in whips and cuffs and chains. Peeling grey paint and one barred window made this little dungeon room complete.

Many of the other kids look pale and frightened and I'm sure I'm among them but internally my brain was working furiously to find a way to get out.

"Step into your new home ladies and gentlemen."

The guards start shoving the kids into the cages, cries of pain and fear sounding all around the room. One of the guards grabs the back of my neck, opens the cage door and pushes me in roughly.

The man paces in front of the cages after everyone is imprisoned and smiles at us. "The name's Luther. I'll be your keeper for this test and I'm sure we'll have so much fun!"

There's a girl cursing at him towards the top of the stack and he narrows his eyes, taking a small device out of his pocket and pushing a button, causing the device to light up and start making sizzling noises. "This, boys and girls, is a tazor. And you'll be feeling shocks of my little friend every time you misbehave." With that, he marches over and presses it firmly to her thigh, causing her to scream and convulse wildly as the electric current courses through her body.

After a few moments he turns it off, leaving her sobbing.

His eyes lock on mine as I glare him in the eyes. "Why hello there pretty thing, what's your name?"

"My name is piss off." I snap. Gasps come from everyone else as he kneels next to my cage and turns the tazor back on. "You want to repeat that?" He asks, glaring at me.

I smirk up at him, "Oh yes please, excuse me, I meant piss off bastard." He presses the tazor to my collarbone area and I tighten my muscles and begin shaking as blinding pain courses through me. A few groans of pain through clenched teeth are the only noises I make.

"Well isn't that surprising... One of you has a backbone!" He laughs, releasing me and I slump, still twitching from the intense electric current.

"What is your name?" He asks again in a low voice.